The Powers Girl - Benny Goodman

[FiatGuy23]

Thats blues right there for you!

[Conn30Mtenor]

We do have these things. There are scads of ppl dancing to swing music these days. I'm not into the swing "scene" per se, but I do like to dance- and dancing back then was about sex, too. All partner dancing has a sexual element to it.

[EnchantedKiss]

sigh. why dont we have these things anymore? I mean, dancing was so popular back then where you would get together with half the town and just swing. now days, dancing is all about sex and grinding. :-\

[Caldonias]

Benny at his best! Lets Dance!

[Aliekjjj1995]

I wish they still made music like this. It's so cool! :-D

[ongeify]

I wish I would be born in this era :-D

[ongeify]

@ongeify would have been born? I donßt know, I´m German :-D

[timboswingdancer]

roll em only kicks in at 40 seconds in........

[mihalekzz]

is this a film?? where can i find it??

[katiemullan13]

Jeez I wish we still and music and dancing like that. It's so much more enjoyable than today's. And I'm 15. I can dance swing like it's nobody's business. hah.

[timboswingdancer]

@katiemullan13 we do dance to this music today, right across the country, get with it hep cat!!!!

[mrgears]

That was a sneaky way to get a crotch shot

[MrRJDB1969]

Excellent ! Where's that TIME MACHINE at ? ..... I've had enough of 2010, haven't you ?

[tumsabai1]

@MrRJDB1969

Sign me up. I want to Swing!!!!

[Katarasblueeyes]

oh look, 5 people acidentally hit the dislike button

[chas63]

@Katarasblueeyes - must be Artie Shaw fans

[hep2jive]

@chas63 or old and got confused

[dlishusd]

@Katarasblueeyes

Bahahahahaha...



[jaguar5962]

@Katarasblueeyes lol grave erreur car magnifique video ! merci de l'avoir postée ! :-))

[frankthetank112244]

@Katarasblueeyes FAT FINGERS!!

[StellarBlue1]

Thanks for posting...this is one great video to watch. Especially in the morning for me. It really gets me going...to work, that is.

[2barbreak]

Dean, nor his friends called their dance "Lindy Hop" they called it "the Lindy" a more social friendly version of the "Lindy Hop"...

[tumsabai1]

Hollywood style Lindy Hop!!!

[chas63]

I mistakenly deleted a comment - sorry. To preface: the Lindy scene was never completely dominated by black dancers. Dean Collins, featured male dancer in this clip was an original Savoy Ballroom dancer - he migrated to LA where he brought it to the attention of the west coast and Hollywood. There is a sequence in the Ken Burns documentary series "Jazz" where Norma Miller talks about the white kids that would go to the Savoy and dance "some of them were so good you wanted to hit 'em",

[sabinoson]

@chas63 Yeah, there seems to be a reverse racism going on (at least here in the Bay Area.) If you do Smooth lindy hop, you're "dancing white." (And that's usually said snidely, as an insult. I and other smooth lindy dancers have.)

Thing is, Dean Collins was a GREAT dancer!

So was Lou Southern, Freida Wycoff, Lennie Smith, Jewel Magowan, Joe Lanza, and Gil and Nikki Brady. And for those who knock "white dancing", George Lloyd, who was black, danced very much like Dean Collins.

[sabinoson]

@sabinoson I meant to say "have encountered." Ahhh...I hit the reply button too soon. Sorry.

[heather4him]

What year was this released? I am wondering when the transition happened where black people didn't dominate the Lindy scene... So odd.

[matisatiretalised]

oh my goodman

[5656bigsteve]

Hey! Were've all the brothas gone?

[tumsabai1]

@5656bigsteve

It's West coast Hollywood, not Harlem, NY.

And 1940s at that.

[Dreambro1]

well, one has think,,,perspectives were different then,,, tv wasnt widely available,, so u really didnt have the visual,,, u may have heard these tunes on the radio from time to time,,, and music didnt follow u every where u walked, as tho it seemed in some documentaries lol

[mig15fan]

@Dreambro1 good observation

[NFitalianGuy]

U want to see the world's best Lindy Dancer go to Abbot and costello footage on here the movie is Ride em Cowboy scene 8 Jewle Mcgowan at the end withher dance partner of 11 yrs. Her moves are literally unrivaled to this day.

[robzrob]

Hey, NF - where is that - have searched - can't find?

[jura233]

Wow, great music, great era, Thanks :) I like it!

[mookindahouse]

isn't Peggy Lee also in this movie?

[chas63]

Yes, but uncredited. The beautiful, personable but tragic Carole Landis is as well.

[musictranscription]

I love to transcribe music

[swim2003summer]

I listen all kind of music. I love to listen big band kind music sometimes. Swing Music? :-)

[dovermoreno]

In the town where I live there is a place called the Valencia Ballroom.  All of the big names during the big band era played there and pictures of them playing on the Valencia's stage adorn the walls throughout the building.

I pass by there every day and gaze in the front door, wondering how it would have been to have attended one of those dances and experience in person the joy and energy that defined the 30's and 40's.

[Frippinonthefrotz]

As my Mother says "Want to dance?"

[danaalmapirata]

i would have loved living in that era!!!!!

[ritade45]

WOW!! I 'm dancing by myself in my living room to this. Benny is the greatest. I wish we still had this music around today on the radio and at dance clubs. Where in NYC can I find this, I'll go tomorrow!!!! I'm 57 and LOVE to dance!!

[dylancaprotti]

Sit this one out.

[ljbabysprite]

This is the music my grandparents danced to and now it's me who's putting on heels and a dress to go out to the swing club almost every Friday night to fox-trot and jitterbug my boyfriend right off his feet. :-)

[Czerniakowska]

Foxtrot at a swing club? I really don't think so.

[DanieTerp]

Now I want to dance in the rain!

[WeasleyOurKing]

Wedgie....

[Mod60s]

This is fantastic Just can't get enough of it!

We are wimps today compared to these crazy kids of that era!

[theShadowKnew]

Sopping Wet Swing !! gotta Luv it !

.. Check out that Slick Chicks' Water Slide at 2:06 .... Splash-sational

[Shiflis2]

¡Cómo ha cambiado USA! Obama Presidente... cuánto le debe la nación a la cultura afro... ¿sonido Art Deco?... por favor lo mejor de esta música no es BG, lo mejor se quedó en la clandestinidad y el anonimato.

[NewMexicoSunset]

I'm sorry, I'm 43 years old, (raised on 80s hard rock) born in '65, and you ain't got no soul if this music don't choke you up and put a frog in your throat.

[hep2jive]

doesnt BG's theme song just float!

well if art deco had a sound....

[aotearoablossom]

Thank u chas63 4 posting this!! I like old skool music!!

[Tomatelasrabeta]

Buenisimo!!!!!!!!!!!!

[opiumWuv]

the first song "lets dance" is my jam!!!! hehe.

i listen to it every morning before going to skool.. lol!!

sSuavecito~

[whupass95]

Some dancin'. In the rain...barefoot...holding an umbrella. Yeah, man!

[Caranfin]

It was so cool to run across this video!

My grandpa, Hud Davies, was the man on the skins that the number opens up on.

Thanks so much for posting it, you made my day!

[parakletos1313]

@Caranfin - Your grandfather Hud was one of my first drumset teachers and I bought my first Gretsch drum set from him in 1973 at Progressive Music. I also hung out with him on the island bandstand at Kennywood.

[fromthesidelines]

This was independently produced for United Artists in 1942; jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams wrote and arranged "Roll 'Em" for Benny.....

[aotearoablossom]

Go BG, My grannies and grandpas still jitterbug to his tunes.

[MOON76543]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOh how I wish I could be there..... ;-O)))))

[aotearoablossom]

I agreeeeeeeee, Benny Rockz, THE BEST Clarinet player everrrrrrrrrrrr.

[minralb]

BG was absolutely great, one of the best ever, no argument from me about that. But the all time king of the clarinet was Artie Shaw. Goodman was one of the good guys while Shaw was a womanizing hockey puck, but man oh man could he ever do a number on that licorice stick.

[aotearoablossom]

Cool, im not a clary player, but like this music coz i jitterbug!Cool i wil check out Mr Shaw....Thnk u !!

[MOON76543]

IT IS GREAT IDEA TO PUT B clarinet G = BG, reminds me something ;-0)))) ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLL AM

[MOON76543]

Lol,Charli... LOVE IT :O)))

[OscTan]

This looks sooo much FUN!!!!

[sweetaliena]

That song seems familiar, I can't pu my finger on it! But that clip is cool!

[chas63]

The song is called "Roll Em". Goodman recorded it a couple of times; it is on a live cd called "Benny Goodman and Sid Catlett" and on any # of Goodman cd's.

[troach]

Love it!

[BallofFire1941]

Isn't that the Dennis who sings on the Jack Benny Radio Show?

[rmm413]

Yeah, that Dennis Day. The man he's talking to is actor George Murphy.